Domain 3 – Instruction 3A: Directions and procedures Proficient Descriptor – Teacher’s directions and procedures are clear to students. Observation: Students move into their tribe color groups after the teacher has given the go.
3A: Expectations for learning Proficient Descriptor - Teacher’s purpose for the lesson or unit is clear, including where it is situated within broader learning. *Observation: Students do a scavenger hunt with a GPS, teacher explains that it will be useful when traveling to place with coordinates. 3B: Student participation Proficient Descriptor - Teacher successfully engages all students in the discussion. Observation: Students are genuinely involved in a discussion on contrasting Helena and Hermia’s characters in “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.” 3B: Discussion techniques Proficient Descriptor - Teacher creates a genuine discussion among students, stepping aside when appropriate. Observation: Mr. Green is able to illicit good responses and questioning about the roles gladiators, and how they are found today (boxers, wrestlers and hockey players). 3A: Use of oral and written language Proficient Descriptor - Teacher’s spoken and written language is clear and correct and conforms to Standard English. Vocabulary is appropriate to the students’ ages and interests. Observation: Coach Dion uses appropriate language in class. 3D: Feedback to students Proficient Descriptor - Teacher’s feedback to students is timely and of consistently high quality. Observation: Mrs. Black gives feedback to students on their projects. The students will know what to expect for the next project. 3C: Activities and assignments Proficient Descriptor – Most activities and assignments are appropriate to students, and almost all students are cognitively engaged in exploring content. Artifact: The students do a poster on Rome’s ancient cities and its modern-day cites after studying Rome in class. 3D: Student self-assessment and monitoring of progress Proficient Descriptor - Students frequently assess and monitor the quality of their own work against the assessment criteria and performance standards. Observation/Artifact: Students use a self-evaluation grid to assess their efforts in class.
3E: Persistence Proficient Descriptor - Teacher persists in seeking approaches for students who have difficulty learning, drawing on a broad repertoire of strategies. Observation: Mr. Jim uses different examples of sentences to explain transitive and intransitive verbs. 3C: Grouping of students Proficient Descriptor - Instructional groups are productive and fully appropriate to the students or to the instructional purposes of the lesson. Observation: Mrs. Dupuis places students in pairs and must act out a scene with Hermia and Lysander as their characters.
3A: Directions and procedures
Proficient Descriptor – Teacher’s directions and procedures are clear to students.
Observation: Students move into their tribe color groups after the teacher has given the go.
3A: Expectations for learning
Proficient Descriptor - Teacher’s purpose for the lesson or unit is clear, including where it is situated within broader learning.
*Observation: Students do a scavenger hunt with a GPS, teacher explains that it will be useful when traveling to place with coordinates.
3B: Student participation
Proficient Descriptor - Teacher successfully engages all students in the discussion.
Observation: Students are genuinely involved in a discussion on contrasting Helena and Hermia’s characters in “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.”
3B: Discussion techniques
Proficient Descriptor - Teacher creates a genuine discussion among students, stepping aside when appropriate.
Observation: Mr. Green is able to illicit good responses and questioning about the roles gladiators, and how they are found today (boxers, wrestlers and hockey players).
3A: Use of oral and written language
Proficient Descriptor - Teacher’s spoken and written language is clear and correct and conforms to Standard English. Vocabulary is appropriate to the students’ ages and interests.
Observation: Coach Dion uses appropriate language in class.
3D: Feedback to students
Proficient Descriptor - Teacher’s feedback to students is timely and of consistently high quality.
Observation: Mrs. Black gives feedback to students on their projects. The students will know what to expect for the next project.
3C: Activities and assignments
Proficient Descriptor – Most activities and assignments are appropriate to students, and almost all students are cognitively engaged in exploring content.
Artifact: The students do a poster on Rome’s ancient cities and its modern-day cites after studying Rome in class.
3D: Student self-assessment and monitoring of progress
Proficient Descriptor - Students frequently assess and monitor the quality of their own work against the assessment criteria and performance standards.
Observation/Artifact: Students use a self-evaluation grid to assess their efforts in class.
3E: Persistence
Proficient Descriptor - Teacher persists in seeking approaches for students who have difficulty learning, drawing on a broad repertoire of strategies.
Observation: Mr. Jim uses different examples of sentences to explain transitive and intransitive verbs.
3C: Grouping of students
Proficient Descriptor - Instructional groups are productive and fully appropriate to the students or to the instructional purposes of the lesson.
Observation: Mrs. Dupuis places students in pairs and must act out a scene with Hermia and Lysander as their characters.